El Quimbo Dam
El Quimbo Dam is a concrete faced rock-fill dam and hydroelectric power facility in the Huila Department of southwestern-central Colombia, approximately 69 kilometres south of the city of Neiva, on the Magdalena River.- Type: Industrial building
- Description: dam in Colombia
- Also known as: “Central hidroeléctrica El Quimbo” and “El Quimbo hydro power plant”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gigante.
Gigante
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El Quimbo Dam
- Categories: embankment dam, hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
- Location: Colombia, South America
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Latitude
2.45319° or 2° 27′ 12″ north
Longitude
-75.56439° or 75° 33′ 52″ west
Inception
2015
Operator
Enel
Open location code
67J6FC3P+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrial
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Ukrainian—“El Quimbo Dam” goes by many names.
- French: “barrage El Quimbo”
- French: “Barrage El Quimbo”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique d’El Quimbo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Quimbo-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Quimbo-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Quimbo-demningen”
- Persian: “سد ال کویمبو”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica ‘El Quimbo’”
- Spanish: “Central Hidroeléctrica El Quimbo”
- Spanish: “Represa del Quimbo”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС El Quimbo”
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